[Magdalen] Penny-pinching silliness

[Sibyl Smirl]

You're a wimp at penny-pinching.  I will go (and recently have gone) to 
the "office" counter at WalMart to collect on a perfectly valid $1 
coupon that the checker's computer refuses to recognize (humans can read 
English: the computer can't, and the checker can't overrule it on 
coupons -- only the spirits in the wires know why it was refused.)

I prefer to go to the supermarket 7.5 miles away on Wednesday, because 
that's their day of the week for the 5% Senior Citizen discount, but 
this week I had to go on Thursday for a couple of things, and since it 
was "Banana Thursday" (I don't get bananas every time I go to the store, 
but sometimes I do, rotating the "fruit" part of my diet)(I have no idea 
why that particular store sells bananas cheap every Thursday)(19¢/lb) I 
picked up five, which is about as many as I can go through in the time 
before they're gone south.

On 3/4/17 6:07 PM, Scott Knitter wrote:
> Went to CVS/pharmacy today to pick up a bunch of items now that I had
> a 20% off coupon to bring the prices down closer to what they should
> be.
>
> Rang up the stuff myself on a self-checkout and headed toward the car
> realizing I had forgotten to swipe the coupon...a little voice within
> said, "The coupon is why you bought the stuff now! Go back and get it
> re-rung!" So I sheepishly went in and said I had stupidly forgotten
> about the coupon and could they redo this?
>
> They could not have been friendlier or more accommodating. Basically
> they bought back all the items with cash and rerang it all with the
> coupon and I paid with the cash. But basically I lost some advertised
> discounts on some of the items and the coupon saved me only $4. I felt
> silly.
>
> At home I mapped out the complex transaction on paper because I felt
> like I had ended up paying double. Nope. I had paid on the credit
> card, had been given the cash and paid the cash back, so the original
> payment persists, give or take about $4.
>
> My head hurts now. I should use one of the Alka-Seltzers I bought. :)
>


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